Each spring I get antsy WhatsApp messages from friends across the U.S., as well as London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Their high school senior kids have just been admitted to colleges in America ...

The primary slogan of the Trump movement is the simple, now-iconic appeal to "Make America Great Again." Indeed, "MAGA" is so ubiquitous that it is now a metonym for the movement itself. But if the ...

If America were a painting, it would almost certainly be a self-portrait. Ours is a nation obsessed with depicting and interpreting itself, usually with the boldest of brushstrokes. We’ve claimed an ...

Philadelphia's Bible Riots of 1844 reflected a strain of anti-Catholic bias and hostility that coursed through 19th-century America. Granger Collection, New York Wading into the controversy ...

The United States must build an inclusive narrative of rural communities. Locals attend a Friday night football game in the rural town of Sunny South, Alabama, October 2015. (Getty/Michael S.

Early on in his bid for the United States presidency, Donald Trump adopted a catchphrase that encapsulated his entire political philosophy in just two words: "America first." The slogan was front and ...

America fascinated me as America fascinates every newcomer. Nineteen years old and fleeing the study of medicine at my Nigerian university, I longed to be a writer, to live a life of the mind. From my ...

Baltimore was two months ago. Ferguson was eight months before that. And now Charleston. For many black Americans, there really are two Americas. As a thought experiment, we looked at the health, ...

Was Christopher Columbus first? A host of competing theories say no. Here are a few of the more prominent ones: Sixth Century — Irish Monks: This "theory" is actually more of a legend. A sixth-century ...

"Ventura Highway" was a very big summer song back in the 70's for the band that's known as America. So what are its founders up to these days? Still traveling a familiar road. John Blackstone reports ...

From celebratory to critical, these tracks were inspired by the U.S. of A. It is impossible to live in any of the 50 states in the U.S.A. and not know about schoolhouse classics like “The ...